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<h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus</font></h2>
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OpenBSD/zaurus is an effort to make OpenBSD run on several PDAs of the
Sharp Zaurus family.
Initially targeted is the C3000/C3100/C3200 models which contain a 4GB CF
hard drive internally.
<p>
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subscribing.
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The current port maintainers are
Dale Rahn (<a href="mailto:drahn@openbsd.org">drahn@openbsd.org</a>)
and
Uwe Stuehler (<a href="mailto:uwe@openbsd.org">uwe@openbsd.org</a>).
Others are definitely welcome to contribute!
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<h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
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<li><a href="#history">History of the port</a><br>
<li><a href="#status">Current status</a><br>
<li><a href="#hardware">Supported hardware</a><br>
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<li><a href="#install">Getting and installing</a><br>
<li><a href="#projects">Projects & bugs left to fix</a><br>
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<h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History</strong></font></h3>
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Shortly after Sharp unveiled its first Zaurus machines, some OpenBSD developers
started dreaming of running OpenBSD on it, to have the smallest possible
ssh-capable machine!
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After the <a href="cats.html">OpenBSD/cats</a> was completed in order to benefit
from a good ARM development platform, work on the Zaurus hardware started in 2004.
Since the Zaurus is a fully capable machine, we no longer cross compile. All
builds of Zaurus are done on the Zaurus directly. (The shared "arm" packages are
nowadays built on the <a href="armish.html">armish</a> platform, because it is faster.)
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<h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status</strong></font></h3>
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Hardware support is mostly complete and quite stable.
The Zaurus boots multiuser, X11 runs, and device support is being
constantly improved.
Most PCMCIA/CF devices work (such as wireless/ethernet cards), as well
as host USB, SD/MMC memory cards and the keyboard and touch screen are supported by X11.
Audio playback is working, and the machine is of course able to suspend
much like a regular laptop.
Even the processor performance mode can be adjusted with
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=apm&sektion=8&arch=zaurus">apmd(8)</a>, just like on other platforms.
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<h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Supported hardware</strong></font></h3>
<ul>
For a complete system component and device driver listing for this architecture, see <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=intro&arch=zaurus&sektion=4">intro(4/zaurus)</a>.
<p>
<li><strong>Zaurus SL-C3000 / SL-C3100 / SL-C3200</strong>
<li>Intel PXA27x ARM cpu at 416MHz
<li>64MB of ram.
<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=com&sektion=4">com(4)</a> standard and infrared serial ports.
<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lcd&arch=zaurus&sektion=4">lcd(4)</a> display panel, supporting <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wscons&arch=zaurus&sektion=4">wscons(4)</a> console which supports X Windows.
<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zts&arch=zaurus&sektion=4">zts(4)</a> touch screen acting as <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wsmouse&arch=zaurus&sektion=4">wsmouse(4)</a> mouse controller.
<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zkbd&arch=zaurus&sektion=4">zkbd(4)</a> native keyboard.
<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pxapcic&arch=zaurus&sektion=4">pxapcic(4)</a> PCMCIA slot, supporting most CF-sized <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pcmcia&arch=zaurus&sektion=4">pcmcia(4)</a> cards (or PCMCIA form-factor ones, via an adapter).
<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wd&sektion=4">wd(4)</a> on-board microdrive.
<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ohci&sektion=4">ohci(4)</a> USB controller supporting most <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=usb&sektion=4">usb(4)</a> devices, or acting as a <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cdcef&sektion=4">cdcef(4)</a> 'ethernet' slave.
<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pxammc&sektion=4&arch=zaurus">pxammc(4)</a> MMC/SD/SDIO controller.
<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=apm&sektion=4&arch=zaurus">apm(4)</a> power management and suspend.
<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zaudio&sektion=4&arch=zaurus">zaudio(4)</a> audio.
</ul>
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<li>Devices that can be connected:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zrc&sektion=4&arch=zaurus">zrc(4)</a> remote control.
<li>Most USB devices, see <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=usb&sektion=4">usb(4)</a> for a list.
<li>Most PCMCIA devices (in a CF formfactor, or via a CF-PCMCIA adapter), see <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pcmcia&sektion=4">pcmcia(4)</a>
</ul>
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<strong>Getting and installing</strong>
</font></h3>
<p>
The latest supported OpenBSD/zaurus release is
<a href="42.html">OpenBSD 4.2</a>.
Here are the
<a href="ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.2/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus">
OpenBSD/zaurus 4.2 installation instructions
</a>.
<p>
Snapshots are made available from time to time, in
<a href="ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/zaurus">this location</a>
as well as in a few
<a href="ftp.html">mirrors</a>.
Here are the
<a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus">
OpenBSD/zaurus snapshot installation instructions
</a> as well.
<a name="projects"></a>
<h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Projects & bugs left to fix</strong></font></h3>
<ul>
<li>Repair pcmcia issues that are causing "white-out" problems with some devices.
<li>Fix the odd suspend crashing bugs and RTC skew.
<li>C860/C1000 support.
<li>Support the I2C GPIO controller (C3100 and C3200) using the
machine-independent i2c code.
<li>Internal flash memory support as a sd(4) device.
<li>Fix battery drain during suspend.
<li>Fix remaining issues in SDIO support.
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